Have questions about the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project? Find answers
about the Project, its programs, activities, leadership, membership, and opportunities
to participate.
The Project offers unique experiences to students and community members who are interested
in exploring the Holocaust, genocide and human rights issues. Members openly discuss
the nature of good and evil, together with such issues as indifference, survival,
identity, faith, tolerance, forgiveness and compassion—and apply lessons learned to
our contemporary world. The Project hosts bi-monthly activities throughout the academic
year that are open to the Monroe Community College community.
Blossoming from an honors seminar in 1991, the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
Project has emerged as a template for Holocaust genocide studies in colleges nationwide.
It responds to MCC students’ desire to more fully answer the questions why and how
the Holocaust occurred and how we can learn from its many lessons.
Anyone with an interest in exploring the Holocaust as a “touchstone” event in human
history is welcome to attend Project meetings. Meetings are held on Tuesdays at 3:30
pm in Building 9, Room 239, at 1000 East Henrietta Road, Rochester. Please contact
the Office of Student Life and Leadership Development for more information.
Featuring debates and discussions, films and guest speakers, Holocaust, Genocide,
and Human Rights Project meetings are rich with opportunities for learning, discussion
and reflection. The Project also offers annual trips, essay contests and community
commemoration ceremonies—often hosted in cooperation with our expanding list of community
partners. Often, Holocaust survivors and liberators attend Project events and share
their individual stories and memories of the Holocaust.
The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project is led by an advisory board comprising
community leaders and representatives of Monroe Community College and the MCC Foundation.
Student volunteers also serve as officers of the student organization.
There is no cost to become a member of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project.
The majority of activities is free and open to the public.
